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• Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Forever, Noble, Crowns

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.384, Lulu.com

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• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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  Hard Work, Suffering, Reform

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• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Men

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• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

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  Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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  Culture, Process, Capability

  "Speech from the opening ceremony of the 2016 Edinburgh International Culture Summit" by Ken Macintosh, www.kenmacintosh.scot. September 02, 2016.

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• Wonder is the basis of worship.

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  Worship, Wonder, Bases

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.370

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• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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  Past, Men, Goodness

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.320

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• The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Brave Person

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• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

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  History, Historical, Theatre

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

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  Inspiring, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Iron

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• When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!

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  Stars, Eye, Men

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

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  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

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• To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

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  Art, Spirituality, Logic

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.227

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• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

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  Time, Hero, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

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  Business, Men, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.206

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• The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

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  Self, Firsts, Sin

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• There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

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  Men, Poetry, World

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Sir Walter Scott" (1838)

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• There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

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  Nature, Essence, Breathing

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

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  Clothes, Looks, Hmmm

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.65

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• I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

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  Bible, Jobs, Book

  "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

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• Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

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  Inspirational, Numbers, Success In Life

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• Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

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  Confused, Confusion, Confusing

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• No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

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  Ambition, Men, Desire

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.236

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• God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

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  Men, Teeth, Bells

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